Mustapha Preure

Biography

Born in the Casbah of Algiers in 1935, Mustapha Preure (in arabic : مصطفى بريور) attended the Sarrouy school in Soustara, and when he was only 6 years old, he began practicing the 4th Art with the theater troupe "El Kotb" of the Pêcherie d'Alger, within the Algerian Muslim Scouts. Some time later, he joined the troupe "El Manar El Djazaïri", then under the leadership of Mohamed Zinet and Réda Bastandji, and participated in several awareness tours across the national territory to support the armed revolution against French colonialism. Also a percussionist and tar virtuoso, he left for Paris in 1953, after having been part of the orchestra directed by Mustapha Sahnoun, alongside renowned musicians, such as the violinist Mohamed Mokhtari and the flautist and composer Ahmed Malek. In 1955, he participated in the World Youth Festival with Mahieddine Bachtarzi, Sid Ali Kouiret, Yahia Ben Mebrouk and other pioneering actors of Algerian theater. Contacted in 1958 by the revolutionary and hero of the Battle of Algiers Osman Hadji known as Ramel, Mustapha Preure joined the ranks of the mujahideen and was imprisoned in El Harrach prison, then in Blida, until his release where he met El Hachemi Guerrouabi who became his best friend. In 1962 in Oujda, he met the FLN troupe that came from Tunis, which he never left, starting at the TNA by being part of the Orchestra before taking care of the retransmission of several shows on Algerian Radio. He will also contribute with big names, such as Mohamed Boudia, Mustapha Kateb, Taha El Amiri and others, to the nationalization of the Ex. Opéra d'Alger, which then became the Algerian National Theater on January 8, 1963. Mustapha Preure has to his credit more than 80 films, including about fifty television works and several dozen radio plays, including about a hundred readings of novels at the time of the late Mohamed Touri and Rouiched, among others, "Enness elli m'aâna" (Theater), "La nuit a peur du soleil", "Les portes du silence", "Chafika baâd El'likae" or even, "Le brocanteur" (soap opera) ... He will die in Algiers at the age of 87 from complications due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19).